Assignment 1: Project Paper – Comparative
Assignment 1: Project Paper – Comparative Essay
Due Week 4 and worth 190 pointsFor this assignment, you’re going to compare two rulers. Select a group of either two male rulers or two female rulers from different cultures using the following list:
Ancient Male Rulers: Ramses II, Shihuangdi, Constantine, Ashoka, Pericles, or Charlemagne
Ancient Female Rulers: Compare Tang Empress Wu Zetian (Chinese Culture) with either the Pharaoh Cleopatra (Egypt Culture) or the Pharaoh Hatshepsut (Egypt Culture)
Note: Empress Wu Zetian is also known as Empress Wu or as Wu Zhao
Write a 750-1000 word essay where you:
Paragraph 1: Establish a clear thesis about your chosen subjects. Include the dates in which each lived and ruled, and add 2-3 sentences on the reason for each choice.
Paragraph 2: Compare 2 ways your choices are similar.
You may compare their family background, leadership styles, accomplishments, victories, losses, or impact of the culture in which each lived.
Paragraph 3: Compare 2 ways your choices are different.
You may compare their family background, leadership styles, accomplishments, victories, losses, or impact of the culture in which each lived.
Paragraph 4: Compare 2 ways your choices’ cultures are different.
You may compare their cultural differences in terms of government structure, religion, natural resources, traditions, or goods and services.
Paragraph 5: In a concluding paragraph, summarize 2 things you learned about leadership styles or cultures then compared to leadership styles or cultures today.
References: Include a reference page that identifies at least 3 references.
The class text may be included in the list of 3 or more.
In-text citations are required when paraphrasing or quoting another source.
Formatting and Writing Standards: Align your formatting to the Strayer University Writing Standards. View the: Strayer University Writing Standards (SWS)
Help and GradingIf you need help, please contact me via email at: claybon@strayer.edu.Your assignment is graded according to this assignment rubric.For a little help with Week 4 Assignment 1, view the following videos: Step 1: Finding the paper and posting your Choices
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paper and posting your ChoicesStep 2 Completing the WK 4 paper
Step 3: Uploading the WK 4 paper
Intext citations: https://youtu.be/R5igNRmKLug
Proper citations of internet references: https://youtu.be/HO9ABVfaLGE
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Charlemagne versus Ramses II
Some of the personalities in history whose stories of conquest have survived to contemporary society and attract significant scholarly attention have only survived so long due to their impact on the societies in which they existed. Particularly so, they form an ideal source of reference whenever certainconversations on power,
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